Funeral services for Sarah L. Dockery will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 at Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton. Burial will follow in Resthaven Memorial Gardens, north of Trenton.
Visitation is scheduled from 10 a.m. until service time Wednesday.
Mrs. Dockery, an 87-year-old Trenton resident, died at 4:35 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014 at Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.
Mrs. Dockery was born March 2, 1927 in Osborn, the daughter of Marion Roe and Goldie Faye Miller Ward. She graduated from Gilman City High School and received a teaching degree from Northeast Missouri State University at Kirksville. She was married on Nov. 16, 1948 in Trenton to Melvin LeRoy Dockery , who preceded her in death on April 29, 1987. She taught at Smith school for a few years before being employed with Trenton Foods for 32 years.
She enjoyed watching the Kansas City Royals as well and making quilts and playing bingo. She was a member of the Jamesport Baptist Church and the Ladies Axillary.
Surviving relatives include two daughters, Janice Huffstutter and her husband, Larry of Trenton and Jean Dockery of McFall; three sisters, Deloris Allen of Chillicothe, Lois Jean Oliver of Fredericksburg, VA and Anne Hall of Prescott Valley, AZ; four grandchildren, Stephanie Clines, Kimberly Gremminger, Lisa Hamilton and Jenny Sprague; and seven great grandchildren.
Those preceding her in death include her parents; husband; three brothers, Wetzel, Junior and David Ward; and a great-grandchild.
Memorial donations are suggested to either Hospice Advantage or Sunnyview Nursing Home Station 2 “Coconut Cove.” They may be left at or mailed to the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at whitakereads.com.
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